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8 brilliant wedding blogs to follow

One of the joys of living deep in the world of weddings is being able to re-live the process of planning our own wedding, vicariously. Not only are we constantly blown away by how so many of our customers describe incredible, once-in-a-lifetime trips through their honeymoon registries, but we get to enjoy keeping up with [...]

The Bride’s Book

We were delighted to learn that The Bride’s Book, an award-winning wedding magazine based in the Carolinas and serving the southwestern United States, had chosen to feature us in their new Spring 2010 issue. Here’s what they wrote: Consider a Honeymoon Registry For the many couples who have already established a home together, a honeymoon [...]

Refinements to big-ticket items

One of the great things about your Buy Our Honeymoon gift registry is the flexibility you have in how to divide up and present the items on your list. As well as single items, which become unavailable as soon as one of your guests has reserved them, you can have items that can be reserved [...]

The Wedding Ideas Awards 2010

As our fans on Facebook will already know, we were overjoyed to learn that Buy Our Honeymoon was one of only three finalists for Best Gift List in the Wedding Ideas Awards 2010. The Wedding Ideas Awards are determined solely from the votes of real couples across the UK, so we simply can’t thank all [...]

10 more fantastic theme customisations

Back in July, we showcased some of the most exciting ways you’d all customised your wedding list pages using our design themes.  We’re so proud to have such creative and talented customers, we thought it might be fun to take a look at another ten of the very best. Our new Vintage theme has been [...]

New theme – Vintage

We’ve now released a brand-new design theme for Buy Our Honeymoon — Vintage. Evoking the sophisticated 1940s or the glamorous 1950s, it features a beautiful floral patterned background, a muted colour palette, and stylish inset photography. It’s the first theme we’ve designed from scratch since we upgraded all our themes earlier this year to enable [...]

So You’re EnGAYged

We’re completely thrilled to have been approved as a pro-gay wedding vendor on So You’re EnGAYged, an excellent wedding resource for same-sex and allied couples. So You’re EnGAYged lists vendors based on their answers to a questionnaire regarding their relationship with the LGBT community and their support of LGBT rights. Although we don’t specifically ask [...]

5 fab services found on Twitter

We’ve been enjoying the Twitter machine for a few months now — it’s great to be able to connect with customers and to keep everyone up-to-date with announcements and developments to the site.  If you don’t already, you should follow us on Twitter here. It’s also fascinating to chat with other wedding vendors, and to [...]

Download your Gift History to Excel

We’ve recently had a couple of requests to be able to download your Gift History to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and we agree that this would be a useful addition to the site to help you manage your thank-you cards and messages. So now, once you’ve received any gifts on your honeymoon wedding list, if [...]

Gift notifications for guests

Here at Buy Our Honeymoon, we’re endlessly searching for ways to make sure the experience of reserving gifts from your wedding list is as smooth and enjoyable for your guests as possible. Every week, thousands of gifts are made through the site without a hitch, but we’re still always on the lookout for anything that [...]